IN MEMORIAM AMELIA ROSSELLI
Paris, March 28, 1930—Rome, February 11, 1996 On the fifteenth anniversary of a tragic death, a general strike brings 30 years of autocratic rule in Egypt down. Words, vs., not composed in vain.
(Wall Street Journal, however: "US Stocks Climb Higher after Mubarak Steps Down." vs. AR's "I try one market—then I try the next...." leading to "revolutions of content / and attempts at revolution within content.")
...We had to
express something better: be given
to rhetoric that was a howl
of protest against that undaunted
destruction in our frightened
houses. (I lost that love
to the vertical, to solitary god
revolutionizing me through the people
removing me from heaven.)
—from "General Strike 1969," in Document, forthcoming in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli